The Way of All Flesh
by Samuel Butler
Publisher: Feedbooks 1902
ISBN/ASIN: 0486434664
Number of pages: 396
Description:
A semi-autobiographical novel that attacks Victorian era hypocrisy as it traces four generations of the Pontifex family. Butler dared not publish it during his lifetime, but when it was published, it was accepted as part of the general revulsion against Victorianism.
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